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2 Timothy 2:16 KJV
2 Timothy · chapter 2 · verse 16
But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.2 Timothy 2:16 · King James Version
2 Timothy 2:16 in context
14Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.
15Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
16But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
17And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;
18Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some.
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Key words (Strong's)
- ungodlinessasebeiawant of reverence towards God, impiety, ungodlinessG763 →
- increaseprokoptōto beat forward, to lengthen out by hammering , metaph. to promote, forward, further, to…G4298 →
- profanebebēlosaccessible, lawful to be trodden, of places, profane, unhallowed, common, public place…G952 →
- shunperiistēmito place around one, to stand around, to turn one's self about for the purpose of…G4026 →
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Having thus encouraged Timothy to suffer, he comes in the next place to direct him in his work. I. He must make it his business to edify those who were under his charge, to put them in remembrance of those things which they did already know; for this is the work of ministers;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 14-18